LFS Q&A - Summer 2009
The London Film School’s Spring 2009 Q&A Programme
Supported by Skillset
Q&A@LFS is designed for our students on the MA programmes. We have a limited allocation of free places for industry guests or those interested in studying at the London Film School. Please use the form below to request a place. There is often a great demand for places so we can’t guarantee seats. You will receive a confirmation email, if you have been successful.
All events start at 5.30pm and are followed by Q and A and then networking drinks.
Venue: Cinema A,
The London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, WC2H 9UB - Click for map here.
(Entrance in Langley Street)
Wednesday 6 May
CINEMATOGRAPHY WITH TONY PIERCE-ROBERTS
Screening of THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (dir. James Ivory | 134 mins | 1993) followed by Q&A with DOP Tony Pierce-Roberts (Howards End, A Room With A View, De-Lovely, The Client. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson's
"The detailed re-creation of this small universe is in all ways remarkable" Washington Post
Tuesday 12 May
STORY DESIGN IN THE SHORT FICTION FILM WITH RICHARD RASKIN
We are very pleased to welcome back to LFS the acclaimed teacher/author/filmmaker Richard Raskin, currently Associate professor at Aarhus University Denmark.. Raskin will propose a non-formulaic model that can be used as a set of guidelines during script development for short fiction films. His talk will be illustrated by seven award winning short films.
Wednesday 13 May
CINEMATOGRAPHY WITH GEOFF BOYLE
In discussion with cinematographer Geoff Boyle, featuring extracts from Mutant Chronicles, Wallender, and upcoming film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.
Thursday 14 May
NETWORKING EVENING WITH BLACK FILMMAKER (BFM) INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
BFM International Film Festival in association LFS present a filmmakers’ networking evening. 6pm Cinema A – shorts screening including:
- The award winning LFS film SURVIVOR (15 mins | 2008), directed by Nicole Volavka (MA Filmmaking graduate 2009) and written by Gabriel Vallejo (MA Screenwriting graduate 2007) Winner Best Script and Best Actor at BFM IFF
- AREA BOYS (25 mins | 2008), an adrenalin fuelled ride through the gang-populated streets of Lagos. directed by Omelihu Nwanguma.
Followed by informal drinks reception in Studio A. Festival Director Nadia Denton will make an announcement about opportunities and participation in the forthcoming 11th BFM IFF (November 2009). (please note later screening time of 6pm)
Thursday 21 May
DOCUMENTARY WITH MAYSOON PACHACHI
Preview screening of OPEN SHUTTERS IRAQ (dir. Maysoon Pachachi | 102 mins | 2008), followed by Q&A with director and LFS alumnus Maysoon Pachachi.
In Dec 2006, a group of women from 5 cities in Iraq – Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Kirkuk and Falluja – came to Damascus to take part in an extraordinary participatory photography project, called Open Shutters Iraq, directed by the British photojournalist, Eugenie Dolberg. This intimate and multi-layered film is a collective portrait of the experience, thoughts and emotions of this group of Iraqi women at this singular time in their history.
"Every once in a while a project so successfully portrays the universality of human emotion that it is both admirable and timeless. This is one such project" Daily Star
Pachachi is co-founder of the Independent Film and Television College in Baghdad and Act Together: Women Against Sanctions and War on Iraq.
Wednesday 27 May
DOCUMENTARY WITH GIDEON KOPPEL AND MARGARET MATHESON
Preview screening of SLEEP FURIOUSLY (dir. Gideon Koppel | 94 mins | 2008) followed by Q&A with director Gideon Koppel and producer Margaret Matheson (Sid and Nancy, Revenger’s Tragedy, Scum).
"Strikingly assembled and charmingly offbeat, Brit verite docu "Sleep Furiously," a feature-length debut for commercials helmer Gideon Koppel, pays elegiac tribute to the fast-disappearing way of life of farmers in western Wales" Variety
With thanks to New Wave Films. Sleep Furiously is released on 29th May.
Thursday 28 May
SCREENWRITING WITH TONY GRISONI - FULLY BOOKED
Screening of Red Riding 1980 (dir. James Marsh | 93 mins | 2009) followed by Q&A with writer Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Death Defying Acts, Brothers of the Head) , 9pm – screening of Red Riding 1983 (dir. Anand Tucker | 100 mins | 2009)
On Tuesday 26 May at 5.30pm there will also be a screening of Red Riding 1974 (dir. Julian Jarrold | 102 mins | 2009)
"Based on the acclaimed quartet of "Yorkshire noir" novels by David Peace, a febrile, almost hallucinatory account of police corruption and brutality set against a backdrop of the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper… genre drama at its most powerful"
"A triumphantly unsettling antidote to everything bland and comfortable on television". Telegraph
Thursday 4 June 5.30pm
DIRECTING AND SCREENWRITING WITH DAVID ROCKSAVAGE AND MARGARET GLOVER
Preview screening of SHADOWS IN THE SUN (78 mins | 2009) followed by Q&A with writer/director David Rocksavage and co-writer Margaret Glover. Shadows In the Sun was co-written by LFS lecturer Margaret Glover, co-produced by LFS graduate James Youngs and edited by LFS graduate Eduardo Pérez Vidal.
Set in the late 1960s Shadows in the Sun is the poignant story of how a mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another. Starring two-time Oscar nominee Jean Simmons www.shadowsinthesun.com
Worldfest Houston Film Festival - Winner - Best Script and Special Jury Remi Award.
With thanks to Artificial Eye. Shadows in the Sun opens on 5th June.
Monday 8 June 5.30pm
PRODUCING WITH REBECCA O’BRIEN
Preview screening of LOOKING FOR ERIC (dir. Ken Loach | 116 mins | 2009) followed by Q&A with producer Rebecca O’Brien (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Land and Freedom, My Name is Joe)
"An extraordinary piece of magic realism... Marvellous" The Times
"Audaciously dropping the French former footballer into a dramatic scenario involving a depressed Manchester postman, his off-the-rails gun-toting stepson, longed-for ex-wife and bantering salt-of-the-earth colleagues, Loach crams a few films into this unique title and manages to pull them into one crowd-pleaser". Screen International.
With thanks to Icon Film Distribution. Looking for Eric opens on 12th June.
Tuesday 23rd June
FILM4 WITH TESSA ROSS - FULLY BOOKED
Focus on Channel Four’s film production arm with Head of Drama and Film Tessa Ross.
Screening of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (dir. Danny Boyle | 120 mins | 2008) followed by Q&A with Executive Producer Tessa Ross.
Please note, there is often a great demand for places so we can’t guarantee seats. You will receive a confirmation email, if you have been successful.
The London Film School is recognised as one of the world’s key graduate schools and in 2006 was accredited as a Skillset Screen Academy, one of a small group of institutions approved by the UK film industry as centres of excellence.
The core multi-department filmmaking programme, the 2 year MA Filmmaking, has been joined since 2005 by a unique one-year MA Screenwriting, also accredited as an approved Skillset programme, and an expanding range of professional workshop courses, under the banner LFS Workshops.
Q&A Registration
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Q&A Registration
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